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A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete

Harvard Business Review

Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production. In the early 1980s, a new way of competing broke on to the world stage: the quality movement, with the deification of W. “Quality is free” became a mantra. .